Tongji University, founded in 1907, is one of China’s leading universities renowned for its technology and engineering. The name Tongji suggests cooperating by riding the same boat. Its tradition of precisely observing, truth seeking and down-to-earth attitude has been penetrated in every corner throughout the history of the university.

The School of Software Engineering, Tongji University (SSETU) locates in the beautiful new Jiading Campus of Tongji University, it is a new and dynamic school focusing on bringing students into practical, high-end software professionals. Since its foundation in 2001, our school has achieved remarkable success and ranks top 5 among its peers in China.

Since IBM officially launched the IBM eServer zSeries University Program by providing mainframe servers, related software and faculty trainings to selected partner universities in the year 2005, Tongji has been the only university in east China participating in this program, and has established a long-term cooperative relationship with IBM for technology researching and talents cultivating.

Under this program, IBM zSeries System Education Center was set up in SSETU on October 17, 2005. With the advantage of the high-qualified faculty groups and advanced facilities from SSETU, as well as strong technical support from IBM, our center has achieved fruitful results in carrying out the training and researching programs and enhancing academic-industrial cooperation. The achievements have been recognized by the industry through various contests, in which grand prizes are gained. Our students, trained for both theoretical and practical developing skills, become highly demanded mainframe professionals and are accepted by companies like IBM, Citicorp Software, Autos&Origin, State Street, Hi Sun etc.